7.1 vs 5.1 vs 2.1

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  Sometimes, and it really depends ont he make and model of your receiver, you will lose the audio channels. Older stereo equipment might not have electronics to mix the audio for you so you could potentially lose the audio channels. Newer equipment tends to mix it by default and even will have multiple settings to force different mixes for the audio.

  For example, on my Onkyo receiver, I can force 5.1 audio from a 2.1 audio source. What it does is simply replicates the stereo channels to the center and rear channels of my 5.1 setup.

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  • replicates is the wrong word, but using the on-board electonics and software creates a stereo mixd_rek
  • for the rear channels and a separate mix for the center channeld_rek

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